{"id":597,"date":"2009-02-26T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T09:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/02\/zazen-meditation-with-jundo-th-2.html"},"modified":"2009-02-26T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T09:36:32","slug":"zazen-meditation-with-jundo-th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/02\/zazen-meditation-with-jundo-th-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Zazen Meditation with Jundo :  Flowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">We abandon all need for life to be as we would make it &#8230; we drop allthoughts of purpose, goal, attainment and meaning &#8230; we strip ourselves naked and jumpinto a river, abandoning all demands that the river carry us where wewish. We cease all struggles, judgments and insistences, casting out our arms andfloating &#8230; us at one with that river &#8230; then, in perfect balance and union, all thought of &#8220;us&#8221; and &#8220;river&#8221;dropped away. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Then, wherethe current flows is just where we flow. Better said, there is just the flowing, carrying all where the waters will. By total yielding, all is nowtotally free.<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">But in my belief, some people have unrealistic expectations for Buddhism, thinking that one can maintain such states in all situations, in all times of life. I do not think it is so (just idealized old tales of long dead masters), nor need be so. Anyway, it is not true for us ordinary beings, the ones I know in this world. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">Even the most gifted river swimmers among us will sometimes blink and cough and thrash around wildly when, from time to time, the water gets in the eyes and throat. <\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">Yet, before we drown in panic and confusion, our training allows us to recover our balance, breathe smoothly and float once again. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1n7EacuivkM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1n7EacuivkM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><u>(remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;<\/u><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><u>a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended)<\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2769166\">To subscribe to &#8220;Treeleaf Zen&#8221; click here.<\/a><o:p><\/o:p> <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We abandon all need for life to be as we would make it &#8230; we drop allthoughts of purpose, goal, attainment and meaning &#8230; we strip ourselves naked and jumpinto a river, abandoning all demands that the river carry us where wewish. We cease all struggles, judgments and insistences, casting out our arms andfloating &#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guided-meditation","category-meditation-techniques","category-zen-buddhist-meditation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zazen Meditation with Jundo : Flowing - Treeleaf Zen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/02\/zazen-meditation-with-jundo-th-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zazen Meditation with Jundo : Flowing - Treeleaf Zen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We abandon all need for life to be as we would make it &#8230; we drop allthoughts of purpose, goal, attainment and meaning &#8230; we strip ourselves naked and jumpinto a river, abandoning all demands that the river carry us where wewish. 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